Let me recount my life with Survival Horror.

Resident Evil the Series: I never found these games scary(except for REmake) and I am a bit of a horror wuss (we will get to silent hill in a minute). I loved the franchise though. I use that with a very past tense. RE1 - RE4 was awesome. REmake and the gamecube and Code Veronica being my favorites. With RE3 they clearly went action. With Veronica they went adventure and found a nice balance. With 4 it was straight up action again but the REmake was pretty damn awesome and everything one should want out of these games. The atmosphere was creepy, the lighting was perfect. The fixed camera helps to keep you unsure of what is around the corner. The new sections where the creepiest and showed that they could bring it if they wanted to. Too bad they never did.

I love these games so much that I could get S rank on a few of them on the hardest difficultly.

Silent Hill: I rented this game when I was in high school. I played it in the basement, in the dark, on a stormy night (super cliche but 100% true). I made through the school and then could take no more. Years later I bought the game thinking "This time" but alas. The trauma of my first encounter was so much that no I couldn't even make it through the school (it also doesn't help that the game has aged quite poorly).

I saw Sephex play some of silent hill 2 and I didn't find it as scary and I also saw him play a lot of Silent Hill 3 and same thing. I wonder if those game would be super scary if I played them alone like I had.

Dead Space: Here is a franchise that started off quite promising for me. The first game was practically perfect for me. The lighting and mood where beautiful. I was on edge the entire game even though I had more than enough life and ammo to take down anything because I played on easy like the horror wuss I am. That didn't stop me from being on edge and not wanting to go through doors and trout. It was a lot but just below my quitting point. Quite possibly the perfect scary game for me personally.

Dead Space 2 was a bucket of trout and I have now started to play the third game. The third game and while I do find it scarier, it is also worse in practically every other way. Having a crafting system because of minecraft doesn't really go hand in hand with survival horror unless you are crafting chainsaw hands so you can pretend to be Ash!

Other games: I have not played too many other scary games because as you can tell, I don't mix well with scary. I tried playing a bit of Amnesia but meh. Now that I have a controller hooked up to the ol' PC I should give it another chance. I hate Mouse & Keyboard with a passion for anything not 4x or RTS. It just isn't my thing.

Dino Crisis was the game The Asylum would make if they made games.